Avant-garde, also sometimes referred to as experimentalism, can be hard to define. Because its main goal and purpose is to defy and...

A short reflection on the disappearance and emergence of queer space in the film "Lan Yu" (2001)

I wrote this back in the summer when Barbie first came out but I never posted it. Trying not to be such a harsh critic of my writing,...

In James Udden’s, “No Man An Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien” he argues that the lack of conventional “drama” in Hsien’s film The...

I wrote this just for fun so it’s a bit less “polished” than my school essays - enjoy!

In Rosalind Galt’s “Pretty as Troublesome Image”, Galt discusses the concept of the “pretty” in melodrama, arguing that despite commonly...

I argue that despite changes and transformations in the war film genre over the years, one theme that remains constant is the...

The anti war film The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki, 1959, West Germany) retroactively reasserts the values of WW2 by illustrating the...

In this paper, I argue that in the film Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940, U.S.A), typical representations of women in film are...

Trigger warning: discussions of rape, grooming, MeToo, and Roman Polanski. Written August 2022. Not for school, just for fun. Spoilers ahead

Written July 2022.

Written March 2022 (when I had covid) (i still got a 90 though) Spoilers ahead!

Written March 2022. Spoilers ahead!

Written February 2022.

Written December 2020. Spoilers ahead!